Life Saved By Dean's Kidney Pills, Salisbury Man Says
G W Fooks of Salisbury credits Dean's Kidney Pills with curing a years long kidney distress that caused swelling and back pain. He was warned of Bright's disease after brief illness but improved after taking the medicine, now cured. Sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY 60 cents. Made Things Even.
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G. W. Fooks
Salisbury
Wienmico County
Bright
Xen Dean
Onstan
Ind
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wallville
Blanchard
Nashville
Tenn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Dean
Thavyo
Broad St
Philadelphia
Dean Mrs. Pinkham
Birch St
Carnally
Widely Varied Medical Claims and Anecdotes
A collage of sensational health cures and odd anecdotes from a historical newspaper page. Included are claims about cures for catarrh, discussions of Italian campanile reconstruction costs, family wedding records, giant bean fields, a school teaching posture, a German envoy’s resemblance to Roosevelt, and a grocer praising GrapeNuts and Postum products with testimonials about improved health and vitality. The text mixes advertisements and human interest notes with dubious medical assertions and consumer pitches.
Laugh and Grow Toothless in Persian Court Tale
A fanciful report describes the Shah of Persia delaying a tooth extraction as court intrigue and joking circulate among the entourage. The American dentist seeks to show instruments, but dignitaries defer, keeping the toothache unresolved while the shah remains intent and amused.
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Persia
Blackbirds at Prayer in a Cedar Swamp Sermon
Kennebec Journal recounts a whimsical scene where millions of birds gather in a cedar swamp yearly. A leader bird speaks with earnest tones, the flock sings, and an old tail-broken bird conducts. After services, birds chatter loudly, then they disperse to a grain field and devastate an acre in minutes.
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Parte Hurat
Blackbird
Kennebec
Tillman Unmoved by Dentist’s Torture Joke
A Columbia dentist boasted of forcing Senator Tillman to squeal with torture but the patient remained unmoved. Tillman left the chair smiling, joking he did not know the dentist ran a paleness dental shop, a quip reported by the New York Times.
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Tillman
Columbia
D. C
Palmetto State
Till Mon
Paliness Dental
New York Times
To Heaven's Keeping in a Fragmented Poem
Fragmentary verse discusses refrain about heaven’s keeping and cycles of day and night. It blends dreamlike imagery with references to dawn noon eventide and sunset, praising peace and beauty amid storms. The text includes garbled lines likely from an archaic or corrupted source.
United States Gains Small Territory From Floods
Floods altered the Rio Grande channel in several locations, notably below Hidalgo where a wide strip of land and hundreds of acres of pasture were cut off from Mexico and conveyed to the United States side. The result is a slight increase in U S territory.
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United States
Rio Grande
Hidalgo
Mexicoo
Resourceful Patrolman in Los Angeles Cuffs Suspect
Patrolman Plischke of the Los Angeles police bicycle squad notices a suspicious stranger on a residence street. He finds a porch climber’s outfit with a dark lantern and rope and, unable to manage the man and his bicycle, orders the suspect to place hands on a lamp post and handcuffs him, then calls for help.
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Plischke
Los Angeles
Plischkeid
Chinaman at Ease in Summer City Pleasures
A Shanghai Times column extols the Chinaman’s summer routines in the native gardens and public spaces. It praises decorum, quiet enjoyment, and restraint, noting the cage birds, carriage rides, and restrained behavior of Chinese residents, while contrasting with European customs. It emphasizes moral conduct, modest public behavior, and a disciplined approach to leisure.
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Shanghai
Domifetta
Plunteer Paride
Molly
Ong
Europe
A Love Song by Phillips Crooks
Fragmented verse extols a private, sacred love between partners within a humble home. It contrasts their joy with social judgment and wealth, urging loyalty to their shared faith and happiness, away from external scrutiny. The poem emphasizes inner peace and a love destined to endure.
Make Your Food Your Medicine Says Philadelphia Inquirer
The article extols using food as medicine noting lettuce for wakefulness onions for skin and colds asparagus for liver cranberries for malaria celery for nerves and constipation from ripe fruits figs dates and raisins. It urges self care by choosing right foods in moderation and avoiding harmful intake.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Salvation Army Citadel Rising in Cleveland
The Salvation Army builds a large citadel in Cleveland Ohio for institutional work at an estimated cost near $90000. About $690000 has already been paid and a Rockefeller offer of final support hinges on reaching $80000 by May 1 1903 to trigger a final $10000 gift.
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Salvationiate
Citadel
Salvation Army
Cleveland
Ohio
John D. Rockefeller
Fragmented Clippings Reflect Odd 1900s Observations and Ads
A collage of short notes and anecdotes from a historical paper recalls notable figures such as Andrew Sledd leaving Georgia for Yale and the Atlantic magazine controversy, a stubborn hired servant called a jewel, and various products and curiosities. It mentions a Glacial discovery by Rev James Outram in British Columbia, Kabo Corsets earning Grand Prize, and Defiance Starch touted as superior.
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South
Yale
Andrew Sledd
Georgia
Pegro
The
Atlantic
Yale Graduate School
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Venice
St. Mark's
Gite
Everett
Ronitout
New Jersey
Amer
Dixon Ban
California
Lndy
Coys
St. Louis
Alard Shheck
Washington
Roosevelt
Gero
Chinaman
Tia
Phillips Crooks
Kansas
Lane New
Young Men's Christian Association
Japan
Nto
Young Men's Buddhist Association
Ceremas Thang
Louis Kanne
Straberg J's
Lawrence
Kan
Napoleon
France
St. Louie
Kabo
Kabo Corset Co
Chicago
Fas
James Outram
Rocky Mountain
British Columbia
Mount Columbia
Winslow
E. £. Streete
Lynn
Norfolk
England
Joe Crows
ASR
New York
Cory GF Waarptr
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Olive Street
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America
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